Word: filled
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...unloads at the "catchment center," where the truants will fill out forms and be instructed to return to school (most do, since each one's principal is telephoned). As the kids wait to be processed, a squad of ROTC students in crisp blue uniforms marches by in formation. One truant stares, wide-eyed. "What's that?" She cringes. "That's what they're going to do to you," someone tells her. "No way!" she cries. She's right...
Saddam is already on the verge of winning an important U.N. concession: a partial reopening of Iraq's oil pipeline through Turkey. Periodically Baghdad will be allowed to "flush" the pipeline of old oil -- which the Turks claim is corroding the pipe -- and fill it with fresh oil. Each flush will yield about 12 million bbl. of marketable oil, which would net Iraq some $50 million, and there could be several such operations every year...
...call from the President came shortly before midnight on Wednesday. For nearly a month Bruce Babbitt had been heralded as the inside favorite to fill the coming vacancy on the Supreme Court, and now Bill Clinton wanted to talk to him. Could he come over to the White House? Minutes later, Babbitt, in chinos, and Clinton, wearing jeans and an open-collar shirt, were sitting in the upstairs kitchen, carving up the remains of a mangled apple pie, drinking decaf and watching the late, come-from-behind victory of the Phoenix Suns over the Houston Rockets...
Reynolds Price still has the letters people sent him when they thought he was about to die. Some move him to tears. The most formal and solemn give him, characteristically, the giggles. All of them fill him with triumph -- he is, after all, still around to read them...
...propose the solution of "cumulative voting." Under this system, a single representative would on longer be tied directly to a particular geographical area. Instead, an expanded constituency would elect a number of representatives, each member of the electorate possessing the same number of votes as there were spaces to fill. such a change would, in Guinier's opinion, allow minority groups to block their votes together in order to elect a genuinely 'representative' candidate. It would also force incumbents into a more direct accountability to their constituents as, since re-election now depends on high, rather than low voter turnout...